ALHFAM - Material Evidence

Theory & Method

Anderson, Jay. “Immaterial Material Culture: The Implication of Experimental research for Folklife Museums.” Keystone Folklore 21 (1976-1977), 1-11; reprinted in Thomas J. Schlereth, ed. Material Culture Studies in America. American Association for State and Local History, 1982: 306-315

Auslander, Leora. “Beyond Words,” American Historical Review 110, no. 4 (Oct 2005), pgs 1015-1045.

Berger, Arthur Asa. What Objects Mean: An Introduction to Material Culture. Left Coast Press, Inc., 2009.

Burke, Peter. What is Cultural History. Polity, 2^nd ed., 2008

Carson, Barbara G. “Interpreting History Through Objects,” The Journal of Museum Education: Roundtable Reports 10, no. 3 (1985), 2-5.

Carson, Barbara and Cary Carson. “Things Unspoken: Learning Social History from Artifacts.” In James Gardner and George Rollie Adams, eds. Ordinary People and Everyday Life. American Association for State and Local History, 1983.

Conn, Steven. Do Museums Still Need Objects? University of Pennsylvania Press, 2010.

Deetz, James. In Small Things Forgotten: The Archaeology of Early American Life. Anchor Press/Doubleday, 1977; reprint 1989.

Fleming, E. McClung. “Artifact Study: A Proposed Model,” Winterthur Portfolio 9 (June 1974), 153-173.

Glassie, Henry. Material Culture. Indiana University Press, 1999.

Glassie, Henry. Pattern in the Material Folk Culture of the Eastern United States. University of Pennsylvania Press, 1968.

Harvey, Karen, editor. History and Material Culture: A Student’s Guide to Approaching Alternative Sources. Routledge, 2009.

Leone, Mark. “The Relationship Between Artifacts and the Public in Outdoor History Museums.” Annals, New York Academy of Science (1981); reprinted in Jay Anderson, ed. A Living History Reader. American Association for State and Local History, 1991: 175-183.

Lubar, Steven D. and W. D. Kingery, editors. History from Things: Essays from Material Culture. Smithsonian Institution Press, 1993.

Martin, Ann Smart and J. Ritchie Garrison, editors. American Material Culture: The Shape of the Field. Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum, 1997.

Prown, Jules David, “Mind in Matter: An Introduction to Material Culture Theory and Method,” Winterthur Portfolio 17, no. 1 (1982): 1-19

Riello, Giorgio. “Things that Shape History: Material Culture and Historical Narrative,” in History & Material Culture: A Student’s Guide to Approaching Alternative Sources, edited by Karen Harvey. Routledge, 2009.

Schlereth, Thomas J. “Material Culture Studies in America, 1876-1976.” Material Culture Studies in America. Thomas J. Schlereth, ed. Nashville: Tenn.: American Association for State and Local History, 1982: 1-75; excerpted in Schlereth, “History Museums and Material Culture,” History Museums in the United States: A Critical Assessment. Warren Leon and Roy Rosenzweig, eds. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1989: 294-320.

Schroeder, Fred. “Designing Your Exhibits: Seven Ways to Look at an Artifact,” Technical Leaflet 91, History News 31, no. 11 (November 1976).

Woods, Thomas A. “Perspectivistic Interpretation: A New Direction for Sites and Exhibits,” History News 44, no. 1 (January-February 1989): 14; 27-28.

Identification:

Lanmon, Dwight P. Evaluating Your Collection: The 14 Points of Connoisseurship. Winterthur, Delaware: Henry Francis Du Pont Winterthur Museum, 1999.

Krill, Rosemary Troy and Pauline K. Eversmann, Early American Decorative Arts, 1620-1860: A Handbook for Interpreters. AltaMira Press, 2001.

Montgomery, Charles F., “The Connoiseurship of Artifacts,” reprinted in Thomas J. Schlereth, Material Culture Studies in America (Nashville: American Association for State and Local History, 1982), pp. 143-152

Runyan, W. R. Identifying Horse-Drawn Farm Implements. Authors Choice Press, 2000.

Wendel, C.H. Encyclopedia of Antique Tools & Machinery. Krause Publications, 2001.

Wendel, C.H. Encyclopedia of American Farm Implements & Antiques. Krause Publications, 1997.

Stellar Examples:

Baumgarten, Linda. What Clothes Reveal: The Language of Clothing in Colonial and Federal America. Colonial Williamsburg Foundation/Yale University Press, 2002.

Carr, Lois Green, Russell R. Menard and Lorena S. Walsh. Robert Cole’s World: Agriculture & Society in Early Maryland. Institute of Early American History and Culture, University of North Carolina Press, 1991.

Gordon, Robert, and Patrick Malone. The Texture of Industry: An Archaeological View of the Industrialization of North America. Oxford University Press, 1994.

Heneghan, Bridget, Whitewashing America: Material Culture & Race in the Antebellum Imagination. University Press of Mississippi, 2003.

Katz-Hyman, Martha, “Doing Good While Doing Well: The Decision to Manufacture Products that Supported the Abolition of the Slave Trade and Slavery in Great Britain,” Slavery and Abolition 29, no. 2 (June 2009): 219-231.

Katz-Hyman, Martha B. and Kym S. Rice, eds. World of a Slave: Encyclopedia of the Material Life of Slaves in the United States. Vol. 1: A-I; Vol. 2: J-Z. Greenwood, 2011.

Kline, Ronald. Consumers in the Country: Technology and Social Change in Rural America. The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002.

Marshall, Patricia Phillips. “The Legendary Thomas Day: Debunking the Popular Mythology of an African American Craftsman,” The North Carolina Historical Review 78, no. 1 (January 2001): 32-66.

Ogle, Maureen. All the Modern Conveniences: American Household Plumbing, 1840-1890. The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996.

Orser, Charles E., Jr. The Material Basis of the Postbellum Tenant Plantation: Historical Archaeology in the South Carolina Piedmont. The University of Georgia Press, 1988.

Orvell, Miles, The Real Thing: Imitation & Authenticity in American Culture, 1880-1940. The University of North Carolina, 1989.

Ulrich, Laurel Thatcher. The Age of Homespun: Objects and Stories in the Creation of an American Myth. Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 2001.

Ulrich, Laurel Thatcher. “An American Album, 1857,” American Historical Review 115 (February 2011): 1-25.

Vlach, John Michael. Back of the Big House: The Architecture of Plantation Slavery. University of North Carolina Press, 1993.

Wilkie, Laurie A. Creating Freedom: Material Culture and African American Identity at Oakley Plantation, Louisiana, 1840-1950. Louisiana State University Press, 20